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Cornelis, a networking company spun out of Intel in 2020, has launched CN6000, a family of 800G network cards and switches for AI and supercomputers. The company claims lower latency than Nvidia's InfiniBand based on its own tests, with partner systems arriving in early 2027.
The Guardian AI
M John Harrison's novel The End of Everything has become the first science fiction book to win the Booker Prize, which fans celebrate as a win for a long-marginalised genre. The Guardian's editorial situates the award within the longstanding debate over whether science fiction counts as literary fiction. Harrison himself said before the prize that writing science fiction was the last thing he wanted to do.
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The Guardian AI
In letters responding to a report on UK public bodies being overwhelmed by chatbot-generated complaints, a housing association complaint investigator says the volume of lengthy AI-written grievances has made her job far harder. She argues that human-written complaints get to the heart of the issue more quickly, and that AI-generated ones can make it harder for tenants to be heard. The letters page also includes correspondence from Dexter Jandoo and Pete Bibby.
The Guardian AI
In letters on the UK's Gen Z and military service, Matthew J Smith suggests that young Britons may be asked to fight for a Nato ally such as Poland or Lithuania rather than for Britain itself. Philip Clarke jokes that a career as a barista may now be more secure than one as a barrister, citing Starbucks' plan to hire 7,500 UK staff and the advance of AI. The letters are part of the paper's brief letters section.
The Next Web
Google is rolling out a connection between Google Wallet and the Gemini app to all US users, letting Gemini analyse spending, find subscriptions and suggest budgets. The access is read-only, and Google says it may train its AI on summaries of this data if users keep activity tracking turned on. The story was reported by The Next Web.
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The Next Web
GridAI Technologies has agreed to acquire Pronghorn Resources, a Wyoming natural gas producer, in an all-stock deal. The company plans to build gas-fired power plants to supply AI data centres, targeting 300 MW by 2027. It has not yet named any customers.
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Ars Technica AI
An OpenAI board member has warned that an AI "takeover" of society could be only months away. A researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to a potential extinction of humanity. The item is a brief summary of the researcher's argument.
MarkTechPost
A MarkTechPost ranking of the best AI video generation models as of November 13, 2026, uses blind human-preference Elo scores from the Artificial Analysis Video Arena, alongside API pricing. It notes that native audio is now standard, clips run 15 to 30 seconds, and an open-weights model ranks in the top three. The ranking also compares price per second and open-weights availability.
Engadget
OpenAI has introduced a new Wallet feature that lets ChatGPT's AI agents make purchases on a user's behalf, which requires users to give the chatbot their banking information. The feature was announced as a way for agents to shop for people directly.
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The Guardian AI
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written notes, much in an obsolete shorthand, which AI tools are now helping decode to reveal what is said to be hundreds of proved theorems. Gödel's unpublished work runs to tens of thousands of pages and is of great interest to historians of science. His 1931 incompleteness theorems transformed mathematics.
The Next Web
Disney will bring Ozzy Fox, a children's series animated with AI tools, to Disney+ in December, according to Bloomberg. The company is also using AI in finance, streaming suggestions and its parks while still protecting its characters. Disney previously sued AI companies over its characters.
The Next Web
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNBC that the Nvidia scandal should focus on AI chips reaching China rather than Jensen Huang's private life. He asked whether Nvidia checked its customers and said anyone at the company should be held accountable. The remarks followed a CNBC question about whether Nvidia's top processors had reached China.
MarkTechPost
Perplexity released Decider v1.3 and Flash v1.3, open-weight decision models that output probabilities rather than text. Version 1.3 adds Locate, a span extraction feature, and reports 91.6% mean accuracy across 63 query-classification tasks.
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI's ChatGPT Wallet allows AI agents to shop and check out on users' behalf. It is starting as a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.
Wired AI
This opinion piece examines Jensen Huang, described as a former tech CEO obsessed with the power of storytelling. It argues that his storytelling has not helped him escape his sex scandals. The piece is framed around the end of the founder mythology.
TechCrunch AI
A timeline covers the alleged affair between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a suspected Chinese spy. The story highlights possible national security implications as the U.S. and China compete to build advanced AI infrastructure.
The Next Web
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its AI agents buy things for users without exposing their card details. Built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, it starts in the US for ChatGPT Pro subscribers aged 18 and over with eligible US-issued cards.
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The Next Web
Nscale, a British AI cloud company, told US regulators in an amended IPO prospectus that it will need more money to keep growing. Preliminary figures in the filing show its total debt was $5.5bn as of 30 September. The filing came ahead of its planned stock market listing.
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OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Wallet, a secure payment method for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots. Agents can complete purchases only with user approval and under existing card protections.
The Next Web
Cerebras shares rose about 17% in after-hours trading after the AI chipmaker reported third-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates. The company raised its 2026 core revenue forecast to $940m-$960m from $880m-$890m and added Microsoft as a cloud customer. The results were reported by Reuters.
The Verge AI
Jensen Huang resigned on Thursday from his position as head of Nvidia, ending one part of a wider saga. The article suggests a bigger story may follow in the coming weeks and months, concerning Nvidia's dealings in China and the US government's willingness to act. The description is cut off before the article's full argument.
TechCrunch AI
ElevenLabs has launched ElevenAI, a new app that combines meeting note-taking and dictation. It is aimed at teams and enterprises.
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The Verge AI
Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, designed to show that agents can be useful to people who do not write code. The reviewer found it somewhat neurotic but surprisingly helpful. The review describes the reviewer's experience using the product.
The Guardian AI
New research by Samuel Woolley, Dean Jackson and Maia Woluchem finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation and information control to shape public opinion and undermine community opposition. The authors say Big Tech has used misdirection and jargon to obscure the harm datacenters can cause to communities. They cite labels such as Antifa, Commies and Chinese bots used against opponents.
Engadget
Bloomberg found evidence of a network of Chinese companies smuggling NVIDIA chips. The report links the network to Alice Huang, who is described as being at its center.
TechCrunch AI
Israeli venture capitalists see an opening for challengers as Nvidia faces turmoil, while many in the country's startup ecosystem worry about the impact of Jensen Huang's departure given Nvidia's dominance in AI and its importance to Israel.
TechCrunch AI
A report says Jensen Huang lacked confidence in his successor, describing Colette Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting over the summer.
Tech.eu (Europe)
Google.org has granted $2.5 million to LF Energy, a Linux Foundation initiative that develops open-source software, standards, and data for the energy sector, to help modernise Europe's electricity grids with AI.
The Verge AI
A humorous commentary on Jensen Huang's reported affairs amid the turmoil at Nvidia, in which the writer says they have no clear answers about the situation.
Wired AI
Startup Mansa is using AI-generated microdramas as proofs of concept to show what Black audiences want, aiming to bring more Black stories to Hollywood. Critics argue the studio is selling out.
BBC Technology
A Microsoft outage is disrupting services including Teams, Outlook, and the Copilot AI software.
Inc42 (India)
India's IT ministry, MeitY, has asked home services platforms including Pronto, Snabbit, and Urban Company for details of their data collection practices, which may be used for physical AI training.
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MarkTechPost
Google has released TPU Sync, an open-source C++ library that moves KV caches and weights across TPU memory, host DRAM, storage, and networks. Google reports more than 90% lower KV transfer latency on 235B to 480B MoE models.
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The Next Web
Malaysia's trade ministry is investigating whether AI chips imported by Speedmatrix, the local unit of Megaspeed, were illegally re-exported. The probe follows a US senator's allegation tied to the Nvidia spying scandal that led to Huang's removal as CEO.
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MarkTechPost
Google has released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast agentic model with a 1-million-token context window, four thinking levels, and pricing of $1.50/$7.50. Google claims it is 2.5x faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash and scores 57% on Terminal-Bench 4.1.
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